Configuration Management with Powerbuilder

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Configuration Management with Powerbuilder
Tim JoyceSolution Managertim.joyce_at_merant.com
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Top Five Development Objectives
Do More Work with Fewer Resources
Build Systems That Support Customer
Develop Applications Faster
Explore New Technologies for Competitive Advantage
Improve Quality of Applications
Faster, Better, Cheaper
Source Software Productivity Group
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Increasingly Challenging IT Landscape
Packaged Application Customization
ISO9000
Application Integration
Component Based Development
EMU
Year 2000
Govt Regulations
Outsourcing
More Complexity and Change which must be managed
New IDEs
Distributed/Multi-site ERP
Web-lications
ERP Implementations
CMM/SEI
E-Commerce
Staff Retention
Higher Quality
Rapid Application Development
Web Objects
Security Risks
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The Imperative

• The only sustainable competitive advantage will
  be your ability to change more rapidly than your
  competition

SourceGartnerGroup
Time to Market
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SCM Essentials
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Complete SCM
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Software Configuration Management
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Change is Relentless

• Applications and content constantly change
• Changes cost time and money
• The rate of change is accelerating
• Nothing endures but change
• Heraclitus

Empower enterprise change
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Software Configuration Management

• Greater change
• Accelerating pace of change
• Less time
• Fewer resources
• More competitors

Making SCM your competitive advantage
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Why do we need SCM?
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Who needs SCM?

• Enterprise
• Multiple development teams and team locations
• Diverse teams
• Teams
• May be loosely or tightly coupled
• Communication, cooperation, and control
• Individual team members
• Specific functions and needs
• Support all team members

Managing change at all levels
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Enterprise-Level SCM Requirements

• Scalability
• Heterogeneous platform support
• Support for distributed development
• Process definition, management and improvement

Enterprise strength SCM
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Team-level SCM Requirements

• Parallel development
• Role definition and responsibilities
• Improved communication
• Workflow automation

Accelerate the entire team
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Team Member SCM Requirements

• Version management
• Change and issue management
• Baseline management
• Build management
• Release management
• Reporting and metrics

Tailor SCM for specific users
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What do we need to manage?

• Custom applications objects
• Modified packaged applications
• Web content
• Components
• Test scripts plans
• Requirement specs.
• Documentation

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What do we need to manage?

• Application enhancements
• Packaged applications customizations
• Packaged applications patches and updates
• Web change requests
• Test defect reports
• User requests

• Custom applications objects
• Modified packaged applications
• Web content
• Components
• Test scripts plans
• Requirement specs.
• Documentation

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What do we need to manage?

• Application enhancements
• Packaged applications customizations
• Packaged applications patches and updates
• Web change requests
• Test defect reports
• User requests

• Custom applications objects
• Modified packaged applications
• Web content
• Components
• Test scripts plans
• Requirement specs.
• Documentation

• Process models
• Lifecycle control
• Role definition
• Workflow automation
• Impact analysis
• Continuous improvement

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Enterprise Change Management

• Products, processes, and practices to

Make change a core competency
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3D Solution for Enterprise Change Management
PVCS spans the needs of the enterprise
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Managing All Your Digital Assets

• Custom applications
• Packaged applications
• Web applications
• Web content

Across all platforms and environments
Digital assets are your life blood
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Supporting Everyones Needs

• Work groups to enterprise-wide collaboration
• Local to globally distributed
• Simple to complex applications and web sites

Scalability to fit each and every team
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Addressing Every Aspect of Change

• Versions code revisions, baselines, variants
• Issues defects, enhancement requests
• Builds and releases
• Workflow and processes
• Content

Continuous improvement is imperative
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PVCS Professional Combines Core ECM Capabilities

• Supports small, medium, and large teams
• Version, issue and build management
• PVCS Version Manager
• PVCS Tracker
• PVCS Configuration Builder

Tracker
Version Manager
Configuration Builder
PVCS Professional is the all-time best seller
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PVCS Version Manager

• Powerful version control
• Easy to adopt and deploy
• Flexible workflow and security
• Supports parallel and concurrent development

Easy-to-use version management
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PVCS Tracker

• Supports all enterprise users
• Controls barrage of web and software change
  requests
• Integrates with IDEs -- including Web
  development environments
• Reports status keeping everyone informed

Controls issues and defects
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PVCS DimensionsFully Integrated SCM

• Tightly integrated version, change, build,
  release, and workflow management
• Impact analysis and dependency tracking
• Defines, manages and accelerates development
  processes and workflows
• Power and flexibility to automate the way you
  work

The industrys most powerful SCM tool
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PVCS Content Manager

• Out-of-box content management platform for the
  enterprise
• Empower content owners, while maintaining
  centralized control
• Scalable, open standards-based solution

Rapidly deploy dynamic Web sites
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PVCS Change Manager for Oracle

• Accelerates adoption of new releases
• Automates migration of customizations
• Identifies changes through customizations or
  upgrades
• Evaluates impact of proposed changes

Manage customizations effortlessly
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MERANT ASaP -- A New Way to PVCS

• Manage development
• Software and content
• Issues and changes
• Web performance
• Deliver
• Faster
• Higher quality
• Lower cost

Develop on demand anywhere, anytime
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MERANT PVCS The ECM Standard
PVCS a cut above the rest
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Working with PowerBuilder
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Making Change Your Competitive Advantage
Questions?